In April, District Attorney George Gascón charged Dewsnup with registering to vote using a false address, which Gascón said allowed him to vote in a supervisorial district where he didn’t live. It also allowed him to “infiltrate” the influential Telegraph Hill Dwellers neighborhood association to advance his political agenda, Gascón said.

Last fall, Dewsnup led a failed effort to take over the San Francisco chapter of the Sierra Club and make it more development friendly. He said he used a false address because he was homeless. A preliminary hearing in the mater is scheduled for Nov. 7.

San Francisco Elections Director JohnArntz, director said under state law even convicted felons can work as poll workers, as long as they are not in prison or on parole.

The city Elections Department doesn’t ask people whether they have been charged with a crime. “The only thing that matters is an actual determination by a court,” Arntz said.

Dewsnup declined to discuss the voter fraud charges filed against him. He said he was excited to work on Election Day.

“It’s really intense. You are working from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. And at the end of the day, we have to certify the ballots that were collected,” Dewsnup said.

Arntz clarified that poll workers count the number of ballots cast in the voting equipment, but that the voting equipment tallies the votes, not the poll workers.